Having trouble pushing to repository

[threes-was-taken]

Good evening all!

I'm contributing to the internationalisation of the homepage by adding Dutch to the locales. I'm having problems pushing my changes to the translation/homepage branch. I keep getting the following error output:

[2022-04-16T19:30:36.718Z] ERROR: Permission to redwoodjs/sprout.git denied to threes-was-taken.
fatal: Could not read from remote repository.

Please make sure you have the correct access rights
and the repository exists.

I've triple checked my ssh key, cloned the project via SSH again with a small change to check if I did anything wrong the first time but everything seems to be in place.

Haven't had any problems with other projects either, so I'm pretty clueless to what seems to be the problem..

Appreciate all the help!

[thedavidprice]

Hi there @threes-was-taken! You won't be able to push as you don't have those permissions. But you can open a PR. The typical workflow looks like this:

1. fork to your own GitHub account
2. create branch and commit changes; push branch to github (your account forked repo)
3. open a PR against main branch of this repo

Can you confirm that's what you're attempting to do?

[threes-was-taken]

Thanks for the reply David!

The workflow you described is not the one I've been attempting to do.

Since there is already an open PR regarding translations of the homepage (#23 ), I figured I could clone the project, switch to the branch of said PR, make my changes and push them to the branch.

I'm new to contributing to open source so I didn't know about the typical workflow, for which I apologise.

Is it possible to fork the repo, switch to the branch of the PR and still push to it ( the PR ) as well?

[thedavidprice]

I'm new to contributing to open source so I didn't know about the typical workflow, for which I apologise.

Hey now, the most important part of this sentence is "new to contributing to open source" — this is 💯. We love to help new contributors get started. Welcome!

No need to apologize for that. Ever. 😉

Looks like you got things working. For your case, what I'd do is:

1. fork (clone) the project
2. switch the the branch you want to start from, and create a new branch from that branch
3. then open a PR targeting the original branch

Make sense?

Also, do check out my Redwood Contributing Docs and video walkthrough. The website codebase is different, but you'll still get a feel for how I use the tools to go from Fork<>Local Clone<>Edit<>Commit<>PR

https://redwoodjs.com/docs/contributing

Keep it up 🚀